Chasing the Dragon 2017
追龙
An illegal immigrant from Mainland China sneaks into the corrupt British-colonized Hong Kong in 1963, transforming himself into a ruthless drug lord.
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Vocabulary
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| 拖 拕 | to drag; to tow; to trail; to hang down; to mop (the floor); to delay; to drag on | |
| 印 印 | to print; to mark; to engrave; a seal; a print; a stamp; a mark; a trace; image | |
| 算是 算是 | considered to be; at last | |
| 罪 罪 | guilt; crime; fault; blame; sin | |
| 爆 爆 | to explode or burst; to quick fry or quick boil | |
| 军队 軍隊 | armed forces; troops | |
| 混 混 | to mix; to mingle; muddled; to drift along; to muddle along; to pass for; to get along with sb; thoughtless; reckless | |
| 理 理 | texture; grain (of wood); inner essence; intrinsic order; reason; logic; truth; science; natural science (esp. physics); to manage; to pay attention to; to run (affairs); to handle; to put in order; to tidy up | |
| 样 樣 | manner; pattern; way; appearance; shape; classifier: kind, type | |
| 犯 犯 | to violate; to offend; to assault; criminal; crime; to make a mistake; recurrence (of mistake or sth bad) | |
| 英雄 英雄 | hero | |
| 命 命 | life; fate; order or command; to assign a name, title etc | |
| 赛 賽 | to compete; competition; match; to surpass; better than; superior to; to excel | |
| 逼 偪 | to force (sb to do sth); to compel; to press for; to extort; to press on towards; to press up to; to close in on; euphemistic variant of 屄 | |
| 哇 哇 | Wow!; sound of a child's crying; sound of vomiting | |
| 入 入 | to enter; to go into; to join; to become a member of; to confirm or agree with; abbr. for 入声 | |
| 因 囙 | cause; reason; because | |
| 超 超 | to exceed; to overtake; to surpass; to transcend; to pass; to cross; ultra-; super- | |
| 啦 啦 | (onom.) sound of singing, cheering etc; (phonetic); (dialect) to chat | |
| 与 與 | and; to give; together with | |
| 升官发财 升官發財 | to be promoted and gain wealth (idiom) | Idiom |
| 时势造英雄 時勢造英雄 | Time makes the man (idiom). The trend of events brings forth the hero. | Idiom |
| 纸老虎 紙老虎 | paper tiger | Xiehouyu |
| 连根拔 連根拔 | to pull up by the roots; to uproot | Xiehouyu |
| 混蛋 混蛋 | scoundrel; bastard; hoodlum; wretch | Xiehouyu |
| 乱糟糟 亂糟糟 | chaotic; topsy turvy; a complete mess | Xiehouyu |
| 杂种 雜種 | hybrid; mixed breed; bastard; son of a bitch | Xiehouyu |
| 臭 臭 | stench; smelly; to smell (bad); repulsive; loathsome; terrible; bad; severely; ruthlessly; dud (ammunition) | Xiehouyu |
| 打游击 打游擊 | to wage guerrilla warfare; to fight as a guerrilla; (fig.) (coll.) to live or eat at no fixed place | Colloquialism |
| 吐血 吐血 | to cough up blood; (coll.) (used figuratively to indicate an extreme degree of anger or frustration etc) | Colloquialism |
| 礼拜 禮拜 | to attend a religious service; (coll.) week; (coll.) Sunday | Colloquialism |
| 神经 神經 | nerve; mental state; (coll.) unhinged; nutjob | Colloquialism |
| 甚 甚 | what (literary, = 什么) | |
| 么 麼 | interrogative particle (variant of 嘛) | |
| 豪 豪 | brave, heroic, chivalrous | |
| 荣 榮 | glory, honor; flourish, prosper | |
| 佬 佬 | (Cant.) man, person; mature | |
| 伍 伍 | five, company of five; troops | |
| 搞定 搞定 | to fix; to settle; to wangle | |
| 寨 寨 | stockade, stronghold, outpost; brothel | |
| 鼎 鼎 | large, three-legged bronze caldron | |
| 跛 跛 | lame | |
| 童 童 | boy, child | |
| 闭嘴 閉嘴 | Shut up!; same as 閉上嘴巴|闭上嘴巴 | |
| 嫂 嫂 | (bound form) older brother's wife; sister-in-law | |
| 濠 濠 | moat, trench, ditch | |
| 颂 頌 | laud, acclaim; hymn; ode | |
| 婆 婆 | old woman; grandmother | |
| 阿兄 阿兄 | elder brother | |
| 毒贩 毒販 | drug dealer; drug trafficker |